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Y.A.L.E. School Makes Donation to MuralArts Philadelphia

Funds from the Fifth Annual Tri-State Ability Art Show will support MuralArts' art education programming for Philadelphia youth

(Left-right)Karen Donnelly, Art Teacher & Art Show organizer, & Peggy Chapman, Director, Y.A.L.E. School, present donation to Natalie Gearin, Art Education Administrative & Program Manager, & Michelle Nugent, Art Education Director, MuralArts Philadelphia
(Left-right)Karen Donnelly, Art Teacher & Art Show organizer, & Peggy Chapman, Director, Y.A.L.E. School, present donation to Natalie Gearin, Art Education Administrative & Program Manager, & Michelle Nugent, Art Education Director, MuralArts Philadelphia

Y.A.L.E. School, a community of schools providing a positive approach to learning for students with disabilities ages 3-21, presented a donation of $2,000 to MuralArts Philadelphia. The donation will support MuralArts’ art education programming, which reaches over 2,000 youth in the Philadelphia region each year.

Funds were raised at Y.A.L.E.’s Fifth Annual Tri-State Ability Art Show, held earlier in the year, via donations and sales from art materials created by Y.A.L.E. students. Art Show attendees were able to purchase customized T-shirts and mugs featuring a design created by students at the Y.A.L.E. Ellisburg campus and printed on high-tech equipment at the Y.A.L.E. School Vocational Skills Lab & Co-op in Cherry Hill by students gaining job skills at in the Y.A.L.E. Standard 9 Transition Program located at Camden County College.

About Y.A.L.E. School NJ
Y.A.L.E. School is a New Jersey state-approved private special education school with 12 campus locations throughout southern New Jersey and the greater Philadelphia region serving students with disabilities ages 3 through 21. Y.A.L.E. School offers a highly specialized program for students with autism and other social, emotional, learning, and behavioral disabilities that provides low student-to-staff ratios, supervision by highly-trained and certified behavior specialists, a comprehensive curriculum, intensive transition support, integrated and consultative speech services, support for families, and an extended school year program in the summer. Since 1976, students with disabilities have been placed at Y.A.L.E. School locations by their local school district and attend at no cost to parents. For more information, go to www.yaleschoolnj.com.

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